A s it hopes voters change their mind from last year’s defeat of a 15% operating budget override, Higley Unified officials broke down how it spent the override money that it did get last school year.

All districts are required by law to give an annual accounting of bond and override expenditures and the presentation Oct. 14 represented Higley’s compliance with that statute.

Of the $14 million it received, the district spent 34% on teacher compensation, 22% on elementary specials, 21% on maintaining average class sizes, 13% on programs for gifted and special needs students as well as all-day kindergarten and 10% on education resources in classrooms.

In 2019, voters approved a seven-year maintenance and operations override for Higley, authorizing a local property tax increase and all

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